Sinking feeling
Another brilliant article from Gary Younge, who has in recent times found a power and purpose in his writing that have left behind his tendency to whinge and made him a strong voice in the progressive world.When Mrs Z asks me, how come they're still rescuing people so long after the disaster, the answer is plain to see. Everyone who is being hauled from buildings is black. You can't help feeling that if it happened somewhere a bit more whitebread, the cavalry would have roared in at T plus five. (Those of the cavalry who aren't getting their arses blown up in Iraq, that is.)
A day has to come when Americans stop pretending to themselves that blacks choose to live on welfare and realise that restitution for the crimes of the past is not a question of a million-dollar payout but requires the creation of a place where you don't drown because you're black or die in the desert because you're brown, and your nation's dream is shared by all, not just the lucky few who Uncle Tom it all the way to the white man's shoe shop.
posted by Dr Zen @ 11:45 am
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